Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, RAIN, by HAROLD VAN KIRK


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RAIN, by                    
First Line: Now flows in filmy patterns from / the sky
Last Line: It rains. ......
Subject(s): Rain


I.

NOW flows in filmy patterns from the sky
The soundless vesture of the graying rain.
Darkly it covers
The massed green
Of verdured trees.
Slightly it hovers
In mittant sheen
On silver leaves.
Let from the Earth
A prescience arise
Like censered mirth
At Delphic sacrifice!
Let there be tender odors telling
Fruitions like deep music swelling!
Revivified,
Itensified,
The grimed grass,
The new-turned field.
Mark the quiver
Of the river
Under the shiver
Of the rain!
A dispelled delusion
Is the white illusion
Of the dandelion.
Forcelessly ..
Soundlessly ...
Ceaselessly. ...
The remote rain encloses
The plain
With sheen
Like dew-dark roses.

II.

Hear the swift slither
Of rain in the gutters. ...
Or the sharp dither
Of motor-car chains!
It rains. .......

From steel-shodden hoofs
A too-hollow clangor
Water hisses on roofs
In overfilled drains!
It rains. ......

A wind-broken dray horse
Lies dead by the curb stone ...
With voice that is curse hoarse
The driver complains.
It rains. ......

Stark, ghosty-hued faces ..
Sodden odored folk hurry
None to the same places. ...
But all to their gains.
It rains. ......





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